our house is filled with ants. i used so much "orange guard" it isn't even funny. it worked about as well as it did for the racoon problem (not). mitchell thinks all those natural repellents are a bunch of hooey, so he bought the little white disc traps while i wasn't paying attention. he knows i don't like poison, but even i acquiessed after a couple of days...there's just too many of them and their little armies roaming our home...
then tonight there was the unintentional bug - the one that came from my not so smart phone...a phone not smart enough to know that i accidentally pressed a button that led to my friend's answering machine. she called back tonight, and told me that she got a message from mitchell and i... it lasted around 6 minutes...oh god, what were we saying, what were we doing...and, what if we were talking about the very person listening at the other end...
i asked her what she heard. she said we were giggling and it was garbled...i wasn't sure if it was the whole truth and nothing but the truth...(people are polite about stuff like this)...i told mitchell and we both laughed, but there was a bit of worry too...the way we talk when we're alone is pretty ridiculous...not something we'd share out in the real world...oy vey, it brought me back to a different time...
years ago, after leaving my brother's house, feeling very confident in my counseling abilities during the visit, my phone called theirs and boy did they get an ear full...mitchell and i were in the middle of a big, horrible fight. i don't remember exactly what was said, but it wasn't pretty. it was at a bad time in our relationship, so i can only imagine...it must've taken them awhile to figure out what was going on and who was on the other end of the call...i'll never know how long they listened or what they were thinking...they were both very nice about the whole thing. when i tried to get more info, my brother said they didn't really hear much, but they knew it was an argument. he told me not to worry about it, all couples argue...i checked my phone and the call went on for 8 minutes...
that was one of the most embarrassing, humbling moments ever...probably just what i needed. who did i think i was, so proudly giving advice on relationships while in the midst of my own crazy one...(we're a bit better these days - whew)...anyway, they got to know more than i would have ever shown on purpose...sure did level the playing field if there were any comparisons before that...
from now i'm gonna make sure my phone is on lockdown even though my mouth isn't...
You must have Super Ants. That orange guard stuff has always worked for me. I've also had my phone call people on it's own. One time I heard someone yelling at me from my purse, it was Zmuda, my phone had called him. I know the feeling "oh man, was I saying anything about him?" It's one of the reasons that I now have an inexpensive phone that you can "shut." I got really tired of always having to lock and unlock. xo
Posted by: Lynnie | February 20, 2011 at 11:44 PM